The Allen Almanac

I haven’t written in awhile but the kids are gone and the wife is asleep so I thought I’d mention this story that’s probably going to get buried since it released over the weekend.

Another one of Bush’s top people has resigned after being linked with a DC prostitution service. This time it is Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias, 2nd in the State Department to only Condi Rice. Hypocrisy is very amusing. Think Progress pointed out that not only was he a member of the sex-is-the-devil party in general, he was a powerful force behind the abstinence-only program this administration has promoted to fight the spread of AIDS in Africa. From the above link (a 2004 story)

Tobias said that promoting abstinence and monogamy are “far more effective” than distributing condoms for preventing the spread of HIV, according to Agence France-Presse. “Statistics show that condoms really have not been very effective,” Tobias said, adding, “It’s been the principal prevention device for the last 20 years, and I think one needs only to look at what’s happening with the infection rates in the world to recognize that has not been working.”
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Tobias added, “The message to young people in the schools is not either ‘Be abstinent or here are condoms, take your pick.’ It is a message of ‘Be abstinent.’ Delaying sexual activity is a means of eliminating the risk of infection.”